Patty McCord, former Chief Talent Officer at Netflix and author of "Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility", discusses her time at Netflix and why certain principles make the company successful.
McCord discusses her distaste for the word "empower" in the workplace, noting that employees already have power. Executives just need to give it to them.
She digs into the intentionally high turnaround rate at Netflix and why a culture like that is okay. She talks women in the workplace and why equal pay is something that needs to be addressed at this point in time.
Invitae CEO Sean George joins Cheddar News' Closing Bell to discuss the company's acquisition of Ciitizen for $325 million, and how its patient data platform will provide even better results for both patients and their doctors. Invitae works to aggregate results from the world's genetic tests into a single, easy-to-use service, and Ciitizen's global data platform will help Invitae become a health technology and software leader.
The CEO of Salesforce said the company will help employees leave Texas, and he did so while retweeting a story linking the offer to concern about Texas’ new anti-abortion law.
From Wall Street to Silicon Valley, these are the top stories that moved markets and had investors, business leaders, and entrepreneurs talking this week on Cheddar.
Bitcoin officially became legal tender in El Salvador on Tuesday despite international skepticism and pushback. Measuring the success of that experiment requires looking at one of the main indicators in El Salvador's economy: remittances.
Stocks gave up an early gain and turned lower Friday, remaining on track for weekly losses in this holiday-shortened week.
A bulk carrier vessel became wedged Thursday in Egypt’s Suez Canal, briefly blocking traffic in one lane of crucial global waterway, Egyptian authorities said.
While the notoriety of the Coyote Ugly Saloon chain has always ensured customers, it is facing a new issue: service industry worker shortages.
Stocks on Wall Street lost more ground Thursday after a small early gain faded, keeping the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq headed for their first weekly decline in three weeks.
The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell last week to 310,000, a pandemic low and a sign that the surge in COVID-19 cases caused by the delta variant has yet to lead to widespread layoffs.
Stocks are closing lower on Wall Street Wednesday following a Federal Reserve report that shows U.S. economic activity slowed this summer amid rising worries over resurgent coronavirus cases and mounting supply chain problems and labor shortages.
